Posts in the Jokes forum do not count towards your personal posts count. They do count to your over all total and the site total posts.
Your posts outside of the Jokes forum are 3,291.
Your over all total is 5,854.
If you want to participate in unproductive, nonsensical threads, that is your business. Keep it in those threads and do not carry it over into serious threads.
Back when I was doing video conversions, this definitely had the best TV reception in the house. The land line phone gets the same "reception" in any part of the house.